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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-14
INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS
A Man Under Arrest for COunterfeiting
Succeeds in Effpcting His Escape.
Meeting of Indiana Presbyterian Synod
Knights of Pythias Display at Richmond
Young Lady Says mo" at the Altar.
INDIANA.
Emmett Gray Makes a Bold and Successful
Break for Liberty.

Emmett Gray Makes a Bold and Successful
Break for Liberty.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
GREENcAsTLE, Oct. 13.-A great sensation
and much excitement was created on the
square this morning at early hour by the
cape of Emmett Gray. a welknown character
of this city, of tough" repute from the snerifs
of Putnam and Morgan counties, who, with
their deputies, had placed him under arrest.
Gray was wanted in Morgan county for robbery
and counterfeitine. and arrested at his
fathers residence. in this city, at early hour
by the sheriff and his deputy of that county.
Gray submitted quietly to the arrest and made
sign of resistance until the court
house was reached, where, when
the officers attempted to handcuf
him, he made a break for liberty. and slipping
out of his coat he across the court house
yard and out to the north part of the city,
Aourishing q revolver IN each hand. and followed
by a fusillade of shots from the officers, of
which ia supposed to have taken effect, as he
reel and place his hand to his hip
as he ran down the street. The last Of
Gray was as ne entered a lane on tho edge of
town. and though the premises were thoroughly
searched, no trace Of him could be found. Gray
bears Buffalo Bill" reputation hero, and it is
believed that If cornered ne will mako desper-
Paul. of Morgan county, has offered q reward Of
800 for his capture.
Indiana Presbyterian Synod.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH Oct 13.-The Presbyterian Synod
of Indiana convened at the Presby terian Church
in this city tonight The opening sermon was
delivered by Rev. j. NJ. Hutchinson, of Jeffer-
sonville, from the text. John Ii, 80. 40.
Rev. Hutchinson was assisted in the devo-
tioual exercises by Rev. j. W. Pugh, of
Franklin. and Rev. L. G.. Hay, of Coates Col
lege. Terre Haute. The call of presby teries
revealed ninety nine ministers and elders pres
ent. from the eight presbyteries of the State
At the conclusion of the call the moderator
nounced that nominations for moderator were
in order. and the names of Rev. Ed
ward Bow, pastor OF the First
Presbyterian Church. Lafayette, and Rev. T.
Calvin Stuart, of Brazil, were placed in nomi-
nation. Rev Bow received 60 and Rev. Stuart
Al votes. and. on motion of the latter Mr.. Bow's
election was declared unanimous. Rev. Bow,
taking the chair. made neat speech, and
in order w. L. Austin. of New Albany,
was elected clerk by reclamation. and DIR. Chas.
L. White, of Fowler, second clerk. Rev. DR..
Little then announced the programme for Fri
days exercises, and after making brief address
of welcome, the synod adjourned until $50 to-
morrow.
Ministers and elders are arriving en- every
bers expected to be here. The church going
people of Wabash evince deep interest in the
meeting and will do all in their power to enter
tain visitors.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-14

by the brewers. This circular is signed by
thirty six firms which agree to protect each
other in event of q strike or boycott.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-14
Honeymoon In Prison.

louisville Courier-Journal.
The matrimonial life of Mr. and Mrs W. E.
johnson, of Salem, Ind, cut short last
Monday. Some time during the preceding week
William E. johnson and Miss Lydia Meyer. of
that township, went to Jacksonville and were
married. They returned to Salem in due time
and settled down at once to quiet housekeep-
ing. All went well until few days after the
marriage. when Mrs. Emma Johnson. assistant
superintendent of the Female Reformatory at
Indianapolis, appeared upon the scene. had the
young bride arrested, and escorted her to that
place. 1t seems that Miss Meyer had for some time
been inmate OF the reformatory. and had
been released on a three months parole only two
weeks. According to the Indiana State laws, q
person under sentence Of a court can not legally
contract a marriage nntii the expiration of the
sentence. Miss Meyer, having transgressed that
law, ard violated one of the rules of her
ditionsl liberty, was thus dragged from the
pleasures of her honey moon, and will spend it
in the prison.
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Collision on the Missouri Pacific.

KANSAS City. Oct 13-An accommodation
train on the Missouri Pacific railroad, consisting
of four passenger coaches, left Independence.
Mo-. this morning, crowded with passengers, for
Kansas City. Near Rock Greek station. a few
miles this side of Independence, the accommo-
dation was telsscopsd in the by the Wichita
express consisting of eighteen coaches, all
heavily loaded lady standing the platform
of the station struck in the
abdomen and killed by the debris. Circuit
Court Clerk Fl. II. holland badly injured.
Mat. Chapman. bageaeemaster of the accommo-
dation, suffered broken leg and other injuries,
and Edward Milton, an employe of Solomon H.
Reed. of Independence. was seriously hurt A
la rye number of passengers on both trains in
jured themselves In trying to break through the
windows. The accident caused by the
failure of the train dispatcher to notify the con.
ductor of the EXPRESS that the accommodation
had preceded him Most of the passengers of
both trains were coming to see President Glove.
land
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THE RECENT COLLISION.

| First Reports of the Disaster Partially Con-
frmed-Where the Responsibility Rests.
| CHICAGO. Oct 13.-Special dispatches to the
Chicago papers this morning to the extent of
| the Chicago & Atlantic horror confirm the As
ISOLATED Press report direct from Kouts the d ay
| of the disaster. The Inter Ocean has particu-
larly significant interview with Dr. G. H. Nc.
Lure. of Boone Grove, who, with DR.. Mckee, of
Kouts, WAS active in aiding the sufferers
at the wreck. Those remains which were
| recovered are of persons who were
sitting the seats near the windows, and
fell outwards when the charred frame work fell
to pieces, but those who sitting inside, and
whose remains fell the rails, burned to
powder, and not a vestge of them except, per-
haps, few pieces of bone, could be found. The
heat between those rails sufficient to have
calcned and destroyed all the remains. In such
a heat. when the charred mass cooled it would
go to powder by embers falling it. and
nothing would ever DE known of them. was
told by one of the wrecKers that he saw little
heaps OF bones, and this was corroborated by
the statements of otheEssan dou btess that was
all that remained of thoss who fell between I
tracks. for when heat ~ sufficient to mako ii
rails underneath red bot, and to warp and bend
them in every conceivable shape, it is almost as
intense as in a crematory."
Dr. Mcclure states the NUMBER Dur ned to
death is at least sixteen eighteen. OF the
wounded he speaks definitely. and his total is
even higher than the press estimate DR.. Nc
Lure says: LAT Miller's hotel, in kouts. after
the accident there were seven ladies and ten
men, making seventeen in ALL" He got the
name and address of the lady mentioned IN the
press reports having done the most heroic work
at the wreck in helping others to escape It is
Mrs. John Wensinger.
J. A. Frederick. who lives at Kouts and failed
to get aboard the train at Hammond, said he
knew there were over fifty passengers aboard the
train when it left Hammond
The work OF repairing the track at the scene
of the wreck is being rapidly pushed. and the
ties which were burned into thin strips of char
coal have been removed, and sound ones put in
their stead.
1T is marvellous to me-" said Dr. Mcclure,
shat there haven't been more accidents on this
road. carelessly have things been MANAGED.
Why, until this Cnatsworth disaster scared the
Atlantic folks that they put in sound ties
along the road. you might almost pull the spikes
out Of the rotten ties along the track"
For about a mile cast OF the water tank the
ties rotten now. but the company IS repac-
inf them with new ones. Whatever the coro
ner may say, the responsibility for the horror is
fixed upon the conductor of tho passenger train
for depending semaphore light and not
sending back brak eman with a lantern and
torpedoes, and the engineer of the freight train
who failed, through carelessness, to the
semaphore light AS for its being too foggy to
see that is all talk. 1t was not foggy Monday
night at midnight.
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ABadly-wsnted1Confidsnce Man.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
SEYMOUR. Oct 13.-Evsr since the arrest Of
the three men at Terre Haute for the robbery Of
Sac" Deputy, who was confidsnced out of So, 900
on a road near here. there has been a doubt in
the minds Of many as to their being the men
who did the work 1t will be remembered the
Circuit Court and sentenced to three years each.
Although the men were positively identified by
several witnesses, there a mysterious "big
man" which neither of the men arrested fully re-
sembrd. The men convicted appealed their case
to the Supreme Court and fur Their developments
have ali along been promised To-day a dis
patch from Detroit, Mich, announces the arrest
of Big Ed Rice, of the most noted confidence
men in the country, for doing the Deputy job.
1t IS understood there parties here who saw
Deputy's companion the day of the robbery. who
did not testify in the case who will be able to
identify the badly-wanted large man.
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knights of Pytbias at Richmond.

RICHMOND, Oct. 13.-The Knights Of Pythias
took tho town today. There visiting
Knights here from Cincinnati. Dayton Green
Vile and Eaton. O., New Castle. Connersvile,
Liberty, Cambridge City, Spicsland, Muncie,
Winchester, Union City. Lynn aud Centsrville,
with several bands including the famous First
Regiment band, Of Cincinnati The buildings
along the line of march were handsomely dec
Grated, and the boys we're Given q grand well
come The Richmond knights are holding a
fair at their temple and this made q big
day. During the afternoon. Columbia division,
of Cincinnati. gave a prize drill and Supreme
Chancellor Howard Douglass delivered fine
address,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-14
DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN.
Indications.

WASHINGTON. Oct. ID A NJ.
For Ohio and Indiana-Fair weather. cooler,
followed by warmer in Indiana: light to fresh
nortbwesterly winds, shifting to southwesterly
In Indiana
For 1llinois-Warmer. fair weather; light to
fresh northerly winds, shifting to southe asterly
For Michigan and Observation-Disclosures fol-
lowed by higher Temperature; fair weather; light
to fresh northwestery winds, becoming varia-
BILE
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Local Weather Record.
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pluneine into the rats head. When it dead
he weighed it at tho village store. It weighed
eleven pounds 1t was a muskrat How it got
there is q mystery.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-14

Traces Of rain.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-06

THE San Francisco Chronicle with an
assumption Of wisdom that fits it i'll, alb
surdly asks why railroads should advance
through rates, and maintain local rates,
when they could just as well reduce local
charges and leave through tariffs as of
old? That is to say, why not put Pin
Ham, away out on the desert, or Squat
House, up on the mountain side. upon a
commercial level with cities touched by
competitive water routes? The question
answers itself. Neither railroads nor leg
islation can invert commercial laws, or
make the tide run out before its time.
Through rates were low because water
competition enforced them, and rail car
riers took freight at the competitive figure
rather than roll cars one way empty, and
in order to build up the country, upon the
prosperity of which the local and profta-
BILE tariff is dependent By this means
both the local and through business were
benefited. But when the law forbids car
riage to competitive point except upon
the penalty that the competitive rate
shall be the rate also for points not ter
minal, the rail carriers were left no alter
native but to choose the local paying rate
and abandon the through run paying rate,
or raise the latter to a level with the for
NOR
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-06
The stomach Distlls Acids.

These, if existent in natural quantity,
and unvitiated by bile, play their part in
the functions of digestion and assimilation
But the artificial acid resulting from the
inability of the stomach to convert food
received by it into sustenance, is the pro-
Queer of hatulence and heartburn, which
are the most harrassing symptoms of dys-
pepsia. The best carminative is Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters Far more effective is il
than carbonate of soda, magnesia or Other
alkaline salts. These invariably weaken
the stomach without producing permanent
benefit No man or woman chemically
dyspeptic, and consequently nervous, can
be in possession of the full measure Of
vigor allowed by nature. Therefore, in
vigorate and regulate the system, and by SC
doing protect it from malaria, rheumatism
and other serious maladies.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-06
NEMs or rHE MoRNING.

FesTERN.-Railroad and steamboat rep
resentatiyes presented arguments before
the Interstate Commission yesterday. 49,.
Colonel ]. P. Irish, Postmaster Bryan and
Hon. ]. +. Swift have been selected as COM
nissioners to select site for the San Fran
cisco Postoffice. At Braddock, Pa, six
men were terribly burned by the explosion
of molten STEEL. The steamer Carmona,
from England; is believed to be LOST.
Chicago elected Roche (Rep.) Mayor by
some 10000 plurality. Prohibition Is
probably defeated in Michigan Eighteen
men were killed by an explosion yesterday
in a coal mine in Indian Territory 800: Kan
sas CITY went Republican, and st. Louis
Democratic ...Silver in New York, 934c-
FoRE1eN.-Many members of Parliament
have paired off and gone to the races......
Queen Victoria departed from Cannes last
evening. 1t is feared in Nova Scotia that
many vessels were lost in the late storm.
......Silver in London, 4Ssd.
PACIFIC r.-Assemblyman Brooks,
of Ventura, has resigned. Complaints OF
dry weather are coming in from the farm
ing districts..A child of o. A. Wash
burn, of Nelson, Butte county, swallowed
some carbolic acid, from the effects OF
which it died. Charles Turner was
stopped by highwayman near Campton-
vile, Yuba county, on Monday ester
day afternoon the stage that runs between
Auburn and Michigan Bluff Placer county,
was robbed 800. Martin Olsen was danger
ously shot by Club Hitchings in Mendo-
cino......W VIM A Douglass died near Salt
Lake under suspicious circumstances. -.
Sam Dougherty, who was shot at Lodi on
Sunday by Hi James, died yesterday. IA
stallion at Santa Rosa tore off young
mans arm Grain is arriving in large
quantities daily at Port Costa...... Thos
Kehoe was decapitated by cars near Port
Costa, while drunk The steamer Spok-
ane sank in Cmur d'Alene river, W. T..
yesterday, and FIVE lives were lost.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-06
Convict vs.. Free Labor.

EDs. RECORD UNION: In Saturdays Bee
=" Mechanic" replies to my letter of the 18th
ultimo regarding competition of convict
with free labor, especially in the furniture
business. His letter contains two state
ments of fact.
In the first place he says that "such
competition has caused hundreds and thou
sands of our laboring men to be thrown
out of employment There has beea en-
ployed at San Quentin in the furniture
business the equivalent of fifty men. How
these fifty men could have thrown hun
dreds and thousands out of employment
" Mechanic" fails to tell us. The effect is
too large for the cause. The statement is
simply untrue. The census OF 1880 shows
less than q thousand men have been eni-
ployed in manufacturing furniture in this
State. That thousands should have
been thrown out when there never were a
thousand in the business is simply impos-
sible. Ii since 1850 more than thousand
men have been employed, then this in
crease of men employed shows q healthy
rather than an injurious competition, and
benefit rather than an injury to the labor
ing class.
In the second place. he says: There are
hundreds OF furniture factories in tbisState.r
If it is true that there are already hun
dreds. dhen the addition of one more can
not appreciably affect the market The
percentage is too small. AS fact, in 1850
there were just 50. If there are more now,
it shows q healthy condition of the BUSH
ness; that there is room for all, aud that
the San Quentin factory has done no in-
jury. IT there are less now. it shows how
totally unreliable and reckless q Mechanic
i in his statements Yours, etc. i. T. s.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-06
VOTE FOR AMENDMENT NUMBER
THREE.

Mr.. Fiske well says: "The first require
ment, for the solution of the problem of
municipal government, is the absolute and
complete restoration to the people of the
right to control their own local affairs
This is so clearly true that we can conceive
of no answer to be made to it, 1t follows
that Amendment Number Three to be
voted upon next Tuesday ought to be
adopted. The dependence cities now feel
upon the Legislature render their people
laggard in the matter of promoting NUM-
cipal interests. No citizen works with as
free hand or as brave a heart for his town,
who feels that all his efforts may be rem
dered valueless by the action of the Legis-
lature in amending the general laws con-
corning municipal corporations. A single
shrewd political boss in one day in the
Legislative lobby, can undo all the work of
town improvement societies, and negative
all efforts by the public spirited to advance
local interests and conserve local economy.
More than this. So long as Legislatures
create city charters we will have variety
of independent Boards and a divided
policy concerning administration of mu-
nicipal affairs. The charter adapted by
general law to Oakland may be the worst
possible charter for Sacramento. Los An
geles might be content to come in under
the legislative Act providing for govern
ment of cities, while to do so on the part
of San Jose might be destructive of her
best interests. The cities of California
are so widely separated, so different in
climate, and so diverse are the views of
their people concerning the right policy of
local government and their needs, that it
is simply impossible to adapt any general
law to the wants of all. All that remains,
therefore, is to do as is proposed by Amend
ment No. 3-confer upon the people of
every city the right to construct their
own organic law. subject to approval by
the Legislature but not to amendment by
it. In other words, it is a proposition to
take cities out of legislative politics,
to remove them from the lobby, and to
make good government IA municipalities
wholly dependent upon LEGAL legislation.
We believe every man who gives the sub
iect fair consideration will feel impelled
by reason to vote for the proposition. It
is precisely the step that of all others will
do most to advance our young cities in
California, to give the residents therein
stable interest in their prosperity, and to
make the people diligent in attention 10
municipal affairs. The cities of this State
all cling to then old charters, though they
Lave outgrown them. and new conditions
demand new foundations and maehiaery.
They thus adhere because TO accept TIE
government provided under the Act of tho
Legislature is leap in the dark. They
prefer the evils of which they have knowl-
edge, rather than venture upon theoreti-
cal schemes of the Legislature that may
be full of dangers. But give to the cities
the right to make charters for themselves
& set up 8 system adapted TO their sur
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-06

AT one of the Democratic Labor-An-
archist meetings in Chicago during the
campaign that closed yesterday triumph
antly for order and human rights, DR..
Randall exclaimed from the Anarchist
rostrum: "What does a man living in a
nine-doIlar home care about the American
flag and the American Constitution ~
"Care@ If that S9-man lived in Russia
he would not enjoy the privilege of even
a SO home if he was as loud-mouthed and
abusive of the Government as are the 50
Anarchists of Chicago. The 50 home in
America shelters-if he is so minded-as
good an American citizen as the mill
ion-dollar mansion. Over the thatch OF
the first is extended the same protecting
arm of the law that defends the latter.
The 50 cottage is as much a castle in
America as the marble frontage of all
Wabash avenue The American flag floats
as proudly from the ridge of the 50 cottage
as from the fire wall of a brown-stone
front "The Constitution ?'-perhaps it
is sorrowflll that it is SOS wall of de-
tense to the abuse of privilege in which
such red-hag ranters as Dr. Randall in
dulge. 1t guarantees them immunity from
the gag that their cowardly tongues de-
serve for railing at the roof that shelters
them, and splitting upon the hospitable hand
that feeds them. We need few more DIR.
Randalls to preach treachery and Satur-
day night divides, that the lovers of free
Government may by the open expressions
of these agents of evil, be brought to a
full realization of the danger of their
secret conclaves, and of the exception to
be made to Frederick Douglass famous
saying, The virtue of the country can be
trusted to take care of the vice of the
country" 1t is true only in degree. The
preachers of q the vicious look forward
to the day when it will take care of the
virtue'of the nation. So long as one An
archist armed with dynamite bomb is as
strong as a thousand men into whose midst
he may cast it, the virtue of the country
has reason to fear the vice of the country